1.

Out of the subway station, Zhong Shihuan was a little blinded by the dazzling sunlight, and what poured into his ears was the noise of the morning rush hour that had not yet dispersed at ten o'clock in the morning.

The cars on the road are crowded at the entrance of the airport expressway, as if passing through the narrow entrance earlier, you can lead to the boundless smooth road, and it is also like a mouthful of ice cream stuck in the throat, eager to swallow it at once, and enjoy the coolness of the moment.

Mr. Chung has become accustomed to all of this, having worked on the roadside office building for nearly a decade, witnessing its journey from prosperity to silence to bustle. In the quiet years, it was the most difficult period for Zhong Shihuan's company.

Today is an important day, the company after nearly 10 years of development, with the success of new product development and channel distribution, the company's performance has reached the threshold of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the past ups and downs and haze seem to be dissipating, a success story seems to be about to have a return.

However, if nothing else, there will be an accident soon.

As soon as Shi Huan stepped out of the elevator on the tenth floor, the company's glass door opened, and a man walked out, Luo Zihao, the director of the personnel department, who stopped when he saw Shi Huan.

"Oh, hard work. Rare vacation, you're really unlucky. Zihao said to Shihuan that he was one year older than Shihuan.

"I already had a hunch, I didn't think it was good, why should this sixth sense be so accurate?" After speaking, Shi Huan lowered his voice again, "How is the boss in his mood?" ”

The other frowned and shook his hand.

It's no wonder that he said that the success of the listing should be celebrated by the charter boat, and this kind of thing happened immediately. What's going on inside now? ”

"The committee is all in the house, and you're left behind"

"Oh."

AIC's day-to-day management has an organization called the "Management Committee", and important matters are discussed and decided at this meeting.

In fact, Shihuan was on vacation, he was in charge of the company's overall sales almost 365 days a year, and it was rare to take advantage of the May Day break to accompany the children for two days, but the news came early yesterday morning that he had to return to the office as soon as possible.

anonymous letter

"Dear Professor Liu,

We understand that you and AIC are working together on data analysis in the field of artificial intelligence, and are currently preparing to complete the second phase of the test report. I would like to report to you the actual situation of AIC, please have an objective understanding of who you are working with, and the risks and losses you may bring.

Zhou Guoming, chairman of AIC, claims to be an artificial intelligence expert, but in fact he is just a student who graduated from statistics, and the previous products have not worked well in the algorithm, and the final output results are completely dependent on manual intervention and output, and the published reports are also tampered with data. The accuracy of their external propaganda is completely unattainable, claiming to be 99% accurate, but the test set is actually only 63%, many customers refuse to purchase after trying out the product, the reason is that the gap with the level of publicity is too big, and no one wants to risk their own business.

AIC's company personnel are chaotic, the chairman and CEO Zhong Shihuan are seriously infighting, and your cooperation with them is likely to encounter some pitfalls, with your identity and status, I suggest that you do not wade into this troubled water, so as not to affect your future.

AIC is running out of money, they only have enough money in their accounts for 3 months, they just want to use your reputation to make money, which is a great damage to your reputation in the academic world, you should consider it carefully.

The letter is completely authentic and I can provide more inside information if you are interested. In addition, I will also send this letter to the leaders of your research institute, please protect yourself and make the right choice! ”

Walking into the committee's conference room, Zhou Guoming threw a piece of paper to Shihuan, which was an email addressed to AIC's most important external partner: the National Institute of Artificial Intelligence. The institute is the most important endorsement and experimental partner of all AIC's software product algorithms, and if the institute stops cooperating, the credibility of all AIC's products will be lost overnight, not to mention commercialization and sales.

After reading this letter, Zhong Shihuan was still taken aback, not because of how vicious the report letter was, but because it could be seen that the person who wrote the letter was very familiar with the routine of dealing with this kind of research institution, and the wording of the words was straight to the point.

Research institutions don't care much about money, they care most about academic status and credibility, and Liu Siqi, as a top professor of Chinese artificial intelligence algorithms, cherishes his feathers very much. The words in the letter directly refer to reputation, credibility, falsification, and tampering, and the murderous statement that the email will also go directly to the big leaders of the institution, which is obviously full of insight and grasp of the ecology of academic institutions, and is by no means an ordinary act of anger.

What's even more weird is that although most of the words in the letter are descriptions, several important data, such as accuracy, do have several versions of the product's internal test accuracy rate. It looks like there's an "inner ghost"!

Shihuan looked down, the email address was [email protected], and he couldn't help but look up at CTO Li Mingdao.

"Email IP?"

"It's been checked, the United States is anonymous, you can register casually, and you can't track it."

Shi Huan looked at Zhou Guoming again: "How did we get it?" ”

"The letter was written to the public mailbox of the institute, and Professor Liu's secretary had a good relationship with us and gave us the screenshot", after speaking, Zhou Guoming knocked on the table and said angrily:

"This is a terrible incident! It must be internal and external collusion to block my listing plan! You must find out the inner ghost, I want to see who did this! ”

Shihuan put down the letter and glanced at the committee members in the room: in addition to the chairman and CTO, there were also Zhang Lan in charge of product operations and Liu Moran in charge of administrative personnel.

As one of the founders of the company, Shihuan is also a 20-year-old veteran of the sales circle, starting from the 99 years of drinking liquor in Zhongguancun and dividing the Cisco router quota, Shihuan has been up and down in the circle of foreign enterprises and private enterprises.

Shihuan is just a little strange:

"It's just an anonymous letter that can't be verified, as for all the fuss?"

2.

Today's meeting lasted about two hours, and the members of the committee drew their minds around the whiteboard.

Competitor?

Simply definitely!

Internal and external collusion?

How else could there be such a specific message?

In the mood of sudden shock, people can't help but use the only reasoning skills they have, guessing all possible answers.

The logic of one faction is "conditionalism": who has the most exposure to leaks? Who knows the test data best?

On the other hand, there are believers in the "theory of motivation": information can be disseminated twice, but only people with profit motives will do things that collude with competitors.

Zhang Lan and Liu Moran have a firm theory of motivation, which is related to their work experience, whether it is brand public relations or government relations, it has always been a cause and effect.

The chairman and CTO are more inclined to look for "inner ghosts" from the conditional theory, obviously, there is more than one type of information, is there still a few "inner ghosts" colluding to commit crimes?

What Shihuan doesn't suspect is internal and external collusion, and he was hit by competitors before going public, this book is simply not too ordinary. But from the perspective of motivation and conditions, the person who can grasp so much information and has the motivation to collude with competing products must be a high-level who is dissatisfied with his desires.

Because of the money? Because of hate? Or, because of feelings??

Thinking of this, Shi Huan didn't feel like he smiled, he felt as if he had entered the plot of the novel. For love? It's incredible.

What Shi Huan didn't expect was that soon, he couldn't laugh.